Definition of Pleonasm

to use more words than necessary

Examples of Pleonasm in a sentence

His book was mostly pleonasm because half of it was filled with unnecessary wording.  🔊

Instead of getting straight to the central idea, she used pleonasm because she thought more words made it better.  🔊

Her pleonasm was a page-long definition, but it could be summed up as meaning “The sun is shining.”  🔊

The editor read the four thousand page book and realized it was mostly pleonasm.  🔊

Because the girl told a lie, she tried using pleonasm and useless words to crawl her way out of it.  🔊

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